New Delhi, April 18 -- Former Law Minister Ashwani Kumar reacted to the Supreme Court's interim order regarding the Waqf (Amendment) Act, calling it a "normal procedure" adopted by the court while hearing important matters.

Kumar told ANI, "This is a normal procedure that the court, hearing an important matter, adopts. This only shows that the Supreme Court, at a later date, after seven days or after the filing of the pleadings is complete, will hear the matter because of the important questions of constitutional law that have been raised. In the meantime, in order that the petition does not become infructuous, the Court, acting on the assurance of the Solicitor General of India, has said that till the next date of hearing, or seven days...